*542 TOtni FROM 90URABAYA, THROUGH JCEDIRI, &C. 
on a Yoni pedestal, from the nozzle of which rain water might 
drain away. Three or lour other square Yoni pedestals are found 
upon this building. The southern end, which is a little lower, hard¬ 
ly bears the trace of an indenture. I am at a loss to imagine for what 
purpose this building can have served, unless it has been a place on 
which to burn the dead, the ornamented end being reserved for the 
use of the priesthood and nobles, whilst the lower castes received the 
same rites at the other end. Close to this, on the south west, are 
the remain of three other structures; the foundations only of the first 
exist, they are circular, and many blocks hewn to the segment of a 
circle show what sort of a building they have formerly helped to 
compose. The two next ruins have been Chungkups, that is tem¬ 
ples without any interior or central chamber. Judging from the 
more perfect one which still stands, they may have risen to a height 
of 2*5 or 30 feet, and been fitted with vestibules and niches, though 
no images now exist. 
A little to the northwest of these is the last ruins of the group 
of Singo Sarie ; it is also a Chungkup, but has a secret vault placed 
under ground beneath the centre of the buildings, and to which a 
breach broken through the wall lays open a view. These secret 
walled vaults in so many buildings, most probably originally serv¬ 
ed to contain either the pious offerings of their founders or some 
holy relic. Did they perhaps contain the ashes of the dead, gath¬ 
ered up from the contiguous burning place, and the Mausolea 
raised above them commemorated the deeds of mighty men, the 
light of whose name and fame has failed to shine down to us through 
the dim vista of Javanese history ? However this may be, the 
unscrupulous hand of posterity has been busy ransacking these 
recesses in the hope of finding hidden treasure. The ruins of the 
Chungkup at which we have now arrived form a pile of about 20 
feet in height, which can be easily ascended. From the top is a 
fine view of the surrounding mountains—the peak of Arjuno 
bears N. 22* W. whilst the Kawi rears its head a little to the 
southward of west. The material used is not the black colored 
trachyte, as in the other buildings, but a softer white stone which is 
thought to be a similar igneous rock in a peculiar state of decom¬ 
position, and which may account for the outer coating of this edifice 
having dropped away, leaving as it were only the core. Round 
the lower part of this Chungkup, it has been embellished with 
neatly executed sculpture, cut in a still finer variety of the same 
white stone, applied in slabs. On two sides this has entirely 
mouldered away, but on that where the opening has been made 
into the vault, it is still very clear and distinguishable, though 
often much injured. The subject matter appears to be similar to 
that observed at Panataran ; the same old holy man, with flowing 
beard, is entreating with folded hands a queen or princess squat¬ 
ting in a bali-bali, who is waited on by female attendants neatly 
dressed with smooth combed hair bound into tresses. The prin- 
